Posts Tagged ‘TSA’

Quite a while since I wrote a post now, I’ve not been sick or anything, but there has been a lot of work abound, and outside work I prioritized sleeping over writing. But now I’m back for the moment, so let’s get down to business

Since last time I’ve come up with new ways of abusing awk, such as having it find the highest value from a command outputting in the following syntax:

\t<characters, integers, fullstop>: <integer>\n

To make it a little more different, the command also spits out a header, as well as an additional newline after the end of output.

I just now, while writing this, came up with a different solution, which doesn’t use awk:

Sadly I think this is used way too much, i.e. decide what new law you wish to impose, then come up with something ten times worse, and all of a sudden, the thing you were aiming for sounds reasonable in comparison…

What I thought I’d do was I’d try some more tweaks, this one about categorization. Mostly because I think some of the neat things I’ve stumbled over in the past couple of weeks might not deserve their own heading. So I am revamping the headings:

Hacks

I thought this section would be about… not necessarily hacks, but if you would, the hacker mentality. Redefining a problem, is one such trait.

I’ve been meaning to learn wireshark, mostly because I could probably put it to pretty good use at work, and then I found pcap2msc which could probably be pretty useful for visualizing the collected data.

I also found a pretty useful site, Sleepyti.me which, given an average sleep cycle of 90 minutes, and user input when she wishes to wake up, calculates when the user should go to bed. Neat!

I’ve also looked into how to increase trust in commits in git, namely by signing commits with your gpg key, and it turned out to be downright easy to accomplish.

Society

I guess that if we are completely ok with any potential ramifications of businesses keeping track of everything we buy, and speculating about what our purchases indicate, then it is completely ok to dispose of cash altogether. Personally it scares the willies out of me.